New Jersey Education News

The city has lost $36.4 million in state aid since 2018, forcing staff cuts, property sales and steep tax hikes. [Read more]

The lawsuit claims school administrators noticed the second-grade teacher keeping students after hours but failed to protect them from "horrific and brutal abuse." [Read more]
New Jersey Institute of Technology put Jason Reza Jorjani on leave and later decided not to renew his contract after the off-campus speeches were recorded. [Read more]

Unions, community groups and civil rights advocates fear a consolidation of Rutgers-controlled medical schools will favor New Brunswick over Newark. [Read more]

The boy's mother says school officials tried to prevent her from calling authorities about her son's head injuries. [Read more]

Students organized a walkout to support the vice principal after his contract wasn't renewed. [Read more]

Some New Jersey teachers are exploring AI in the classroom, mirroring state officials’ larger embrace of the new technology. [Read more]

The veteran teacher claims she raised concerns about a colleague's relationship with a high school junior and alleged "pedophile parties" he attended. [Read more]

The state Health Department granted pharmacists the authority to adminster the vaccines without a prescription. [Read more]

Neptune Township School District is asking parents to drive their children to and from school after the bus company that it contracts with suspended routes in the township. [Read more]

After years of delay, the first civil trial involving allegations of sexual abuse by the clergy in New Jersey opened Tuesday before a jury in Morris County. [Read more]

The school named after longtime Mayor Nicholas J. Sacco. [Read more]

The court says the formula is fair, but students still don’t have what they need. What’s really going on in Lakewood? [Read more]

“It’s a waste of taxpayer money,” one former school official says. [Read more]
Nearly 25 years after landmark court rulings mandated equal educational opportunities, more than 10,000 eligible kids in New Jersey's poorest districts aren't receiving free pre-K. [Read more]
New Jersey is supposed to enroll 90 percent of eligible children in pre-K in these 31 districts. It hasn't come close. [Read more]

Delaware Valley Regional High School followed the student’s wishes to be addressed by a different name and gender. The parent claims they broke the law. [Read more]
“I have no idea what Donald Trump is going to do,” new Rutgers President William Tate IV said as he sat down to talk about his plans for the state [Read more]
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Wish you could handle emotions better? Learn practical strategies with researcher Marc Brackett and host Peter DeWitt. [Read more]
Avoiding discussion of difficult topics in school is a missed learning opportunity. [Read more]
Parental controls can complement AI literacy instruction in schools, so long as parents know how to activate them. [Read more]
Teachers face discipline for social media posts following the conservative speaker's assassination. [Read more]
Some tech CEOs have claimed that learning to code won't be necessary. Computer science educators disagree. [Read more]
As some districts and states strictly enforce kindergarten cutoff dates, parents feel the squeeze. [Read more]
The nation's second-largest district agreed to tutoring and other measures to settle a case brought by parents during the pandemic. [Read more]
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